Eric Anslyn | |
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Born | Eric Van Anslyn June 9, 1960 |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
Awards | Centenary Prize, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physical organic chemistry |
Institutions | The University of Texas at Austin |
Thesis | Mechanistic, Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of High Valent Metallacycles and metal Alkylidenes (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Grubbs |
Eric V. Anslyn (born June 9, 1960, Santa Monica, California) is an American chemist , University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] He previously held the Norman Hackerman Professorship[ citation needed]. Anslyn is co-author of Modern Physical Organic Chemistry, an introductory graduate textbook. [2]
Anslyn is notable for his work in developing designed receptors and sensor arrays by incorporating principal component analysis and discriminant analysis to mimic human taste and smell. [3] [4] [5] Prof. Anslyn developed a colorimetric sensor to distinguish flavonoids (hydrolysis products of tannins) between varietals of red wines. An analogous colorimetric sensor was developed to mimic human taste by positioning polymer microbeads on a silicon chip.[ citation needed] In related research, Prof. Anslyn designed a fluorometric chemical sensor consisting of a light-tight lego box and a smart phone to detect nerve agents such as VX and sarin. [6]
Anslyn received one of the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards awarded in 2006 for his research in pattern recognition and supramolecular chemistry [7] and the Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry in 2013. [8]
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Research: Mechanistic studies of ribonuclease A mimics. Detailed kinetics analyses of imidazole catalyzed 3'→5' UpU hydrolysis and isomerization. Synthesis and kinetics studies of bis-imidazole β-cyclodextrin catalyzed phosphodiester hydrolyses.
Research: Mechanistic and theoretical studies of olefin metathesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerizations catalyzed by group IV and VI metals.